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David retweeted
9,500 season ticket holders voted yes in a scuffed survey in which they had absolutely no information whatsoever.
When 30,000 are singing to shove the new stadium up your arse week in and out recently, surely that’s a better tell of fan sentiment on this matter…
David retweeted
Good news for the “Empty Old Trafford” brigade.
Plenty of tickets available for Brentford on 28th November.
Rather than sitting on Twitter lecturing actual matchgoers about why we shouldn’t attend, you can all club together, buy a ticket each and leave your seats empty.
Over to you. 👍
David retweeted
To all #MUFC supporters, wherever you are in the world: if you want to see a boycott, then the first step is to get behind Green & Gold.
Green & Gold is a visual representation of the protest, something we can all unite behind. There are plenty of reasons why our fanbase has become fractured, but there are just as many reasons why we should now be coming together. This is an opportunity to bring supporters together, regardless of their differences. If you can't even get behind something as simple as that, then surely you have to recognise that you're contributing to the very division we're trying to overcome.
Unity is key here. If you're not prepared to back it, stand alongside fellow supporters and help build momentum, then how do you expect this to gain any real traction?
This isn't going to happen overnight. It needs time to grow, gather support and build momentum. But that starts with all of us pulling in the same direction, getting involved and playing our part, rather than sitting on the sidelines trying to direct things from afar.
If we want change, we need to build it together.
David retweeted
🇾🇪 MATCH GOING REDS 🇾🇪
👉Make your feelings known
👉 Let them know what you think of destroying Old Trafford
👉 BOYCOTT the concourse
🇾🇪 REMOTE REDS
👉 Unfollow official Club accounts
👉 Unsubscribe from MUTV
👉 Back protests organised by match-goers
@TraMufc @muyscofficial @SouthStandUtd
David retweeted
The consequences are real. The first sanction I'm aware of has now been issued for throwing a tennis ball towards the pitch during last Tuesday night's game against Roma, with a potential three-year ban.
The individual was also arrested.
To quote my previous post:
"2. Throwing Objects onto the Pitch"
The first bullet point:
"It’s a specific criminal offence: Under the Football (Offences) Act 1991, throwing any missile onto the pitch or surrounding area is illegal."
Yet we're still told what is best.
I hear plenty of noise online about what matchgoers “ought” to do to force change, most notably demands that we leave Old Trafford empty or throw missiles onto the pitch to stop games.
If you don’t attend games regularly, it’s easy to look at things from a distance and assume it’s simply a matter of willpower. Here is the reality on the ground:
1. The “Boycott / Empty Seats” Myth
- The money is already banked: Around 46,000 seats belong to Season Ticket holders who pay in advance in May and June—before the previous season has even finished. Whether an ST holder sits in that seat or stays home, the Glazers already have the cash.
- Season ticket holders don’t control the stadium: If, on average, 20% of Season Ticket Holders forward or resell through official channels, you’re left with roughly half the stadium’s capacity. The remaining half of the capacity is filled by hospitality and general members paying premium prices, people who aren’t walking out or boycotting.
- Strict attendance enforcement: Season Ticket holders must physically attend or officially transfer at least 16 out of 19 Premier League home matches. If you fail to hit that threshold, the club revokes your ticket for the following season.
- You don’t create an empty stadium—you create a corporate one: With over 100,000 people on the waiting list and massive international tourism demand, any seat permanently vacated isn’t left empty. The club simply reclaims it and flips it into extortionate single-match membership prices or hospitality packages.
- The European comparison doesn’t work: Pointing to Serie A or the Bundesliga ignores the fundamental economics. Many of those clubs have cheap tickets, standing sections, and 50+1 fan ownership models. Old Trafford operates in a hyper-commercialised, sold-out market. Asking a local supporter to sacrifice a seat their family has held for 20, 30, or 40 years, only for it to be sold to a tourist five minutes later, gives the owners zero financial leverage.
2. Throwing Objects onto the Pitch
- It’s a specific criminal offence: Under the Football (Offences) Act 1991, throwing any missile onto the pitch or surrounding area is illegal.
- It ruins lives, not ownership: Old Trafford is blanketed by modern high-definition CCTV and facial recognition. Anyone caught doesn’t just face a club ban; they face mandatory court-issued Football Banning Orders (FBOs), the surrender of their passport during European fixtures, a criminal record, and potential loss of employment. Furthermore, with modern automated flagging and blanket ticketing investigations, which have been very poor on United’s part, when disorder breaks out, bystanders and innocent people nearby often get swept up in the fallout, losing access to tickets while lengthy club appeals grind on.
- Demanding that local matchgoers take on criminal records and jeopardise their livelihoods while you watch in a pub, on TV, or via an illegal stream isn’t a protest strategy; it’s completely detached from reality.
What Non-Matchgoers Can ACTUALLY Do to Hit the Model: The club’s ownership model is built on one thing: commercial monetisation of the global audience. That is where you have direct leverage.
- Hit the vanity metrics: Unfollow the club's official accounts on X, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. The club pitches these raw follower numbers to prospective commercial partners every day.
- Direct consumer feedback to commercial partners: Brands invest heavily for positive sentiment. When supporters collectively make it clear across sponsor channels that partnering with negligent ownership carries a reputational cost, commercial teams take notice.
- Starve the Megastore: Stop buying official kits, training apparel, and club subscriptions. If you want United gear, buy retro or support independent fan-made apparel.
- Back fan-led advocacy: Support independent fan media, fanzines, and the Supporters Trust. Collective, legal, and political pressure moves the needle; reckless armchair advice does not.
If we want change, it requires collective discipline across the entire fanbase—not asking matchgoers to commit financial or legal suicide just to make a 30-second point on television.
There’s no divide here: it isn’t matchgoers versus non-matchgoers; it’s all of us. If we aren’t united, we achieve nothing, and that failure rests on every single Manchester United supporter.
A better-formatted version of this post is here: cheesesofnazareth.substack.c…
David retweeted
Whether you agree or not, as match-going fans, we're not going to walk out of the stadium in protest of the owners - not in numbers that would be impactful.
Right now, I genuinely believe we need to stand together as United supporters. Whatever your thoughts on Green & Gold being visible inside the stadium, there's no denying that it's getting noticed. The media are picking up on the noise we're making, and that's important.
Green & Gold is a visual protest. Whether it's wearing the colours, throwing thousands of balloons up into the air or finding other ways to make our presence felt, doing something is better than doing nothing. We need to make ourselves visible.
Villa is on TV this Sunday. There were 4,000 balloons on Tuesday. Will there be even more this weekend? That's down to every single one of us.
It's time to build momentum, not lose it.
David retweeted
There’s a constant narrative that matchgoers need to "do more." But look at the sheer numbers: the club boasts a global fanbase of anywhere between 600 million and 1.1 billion people.
Even taking the conservative 600m figure, the roughly 37,000 core matchgoers in the ground represent just 0.006% of our total support.
Asking 0.006% of the fanbase to carry the entire weight of a protest movement makes no sense. The reality is that the global fanbase holds far more leverage than the few through the turnstiles; your collective voice and digital reach can amplify our message louder than anything we can do alone. If we bring the Green & Gold back inside the ground, we need you to back us from outside, not turn against us. We fight this together or not at all.
Whether you personally back the Green & Gold movement or not, it remains the most visible, realistic protest we have. It doesn’t risk anyone's season ticket or livelihood like a walkout does, making it something far more matchgoers can actually get behind inside the ground.
Tell everyone to take Green & Gold balloons to every game, wear Green & Gold scarves - think how that looks in the stadium - remember AC Milan?
I'll repeat what I said in my last post: imagine what a difference we make as a collective.
- Hit the vanity metrics: Unfollow the club's official accounts on X, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. The club pitches these raw follower numbers to prospective commercial partners every day.
- Direct consumer feedback to commercial partners: Brands invest heavily for positive sentiment. When supporters collectively make it clear across sponsor channels that partnering with negligent ownership carries a reputational cost, commercial teams take notice.
- Starve the Megastore: Stop buying official kits, training apparel, and club subscriptions. If you want United gear, buy retro or support independent fan-made apparel.
- Back fan-led advocacy: Support independent fan media, fanzines, and the Supporters Trust. Collective, legal, and political pressure moves the needle; reckless armchair advice does not.
Do you see what you alone can achieve, work with us, not against us.
I hear plenty of noise online about what matchgoers “ought” to do to force change, most notably demands that we leave Old Trafford empty or throw missiles onto the pitch to stop games.
If you don’t attend games regularly, it’s easy to look at things from a distance and assume it’s simply a matter of willpower. Here is the reality on the ground:
1. The “Boycott / Empty Seats” Myth
- The money is already banked: Around 46,000 seats belong to Season Ticket holders who pay in advance in May and June—before the previous season has even finished. Whether an ST holder sits in that seat or stays home, the Glazers already have the cash.
- Season ticket holders don’t control the stadium: If, on average, 20% of Season Ticket Holders forward or resell through official channels, you’re left with roughly half the stadium’s capacity. The remaining half of the capacity is filled by hospitality and general members paying premium prices, people who aren’t walking out or boycotting.
- Strict attendance enforcement: Season Ticket holders must physically attend or officially transfer at least 16 out of 19 Premier League home matches. If you fail to hit that threshold, the club revokes your ticket for the following season.
- You don’t create an empty stadium—you create a corporate one: With over 100,000 people on the waiting list and massive international tourism demand, any seat permanently vacated isn’t left empty. The club simply reclaims it and flips it into extortionate single-match membership prices or hospitality packages.
- The European comparison doesn’t work: Pointing to Serie A or the Bundesliga ignores the fundamental economics. Many of those clubs have cheap tickets, standing sections, and 50+1 fan ownership models. Old Trafford operates in a hyper-commercialised, sold-out market. Asking a local supporter to sacrifice a seat their family has held for 20, 30, or 40 years, only for it to be sold to a tourist five minutes later, gives the owners zero financial leverage.
2. Throwing Objects onto the Pitch
- It’s a specific criminal offence: Under the Football (Offences) Act 1991, throwing any missile onto the pitch or surrounding area is illegal.
- It ruins lives, not ownership: Old Trafford is blanketed by modern high-definition CCTV and facial recognition. Anyone caught doesn’t just face a club ban; they face mandatory court-issued Football Banning Orders (FBOs), the surrender of their passport during European fixtures, a criminal record, and potential loss of employment. Furthermore, with modern automated flagging and blanket ticketing investigations, which have been very poor on United’s part, when disorder breaks out, bystanders and innocent people nearby often get swept up in the fallout, losing access to tickets while lengthy club appeals grind on.
- Demanding that local matchgoers take on criminal records and jeopardise their livelihoods while you watch in a pub, on TV, or via an illegal stream isn’t a protest strategy; it’s completely detached from reality.
What Non-Matchgoers Can ACTUALLY Do to Hit the Model: The club’s ownership model is built on one thing: commercial monetisation of the global audience. That is where you have direct leverage.
- Hit the vanity metrics: Unfollow the club's official accounts on X, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. The club pitches these raw follower numbers to prospective commercial partners every day.
- Direct consumer feedback to commercial partners: Brands invest heavily for positive sentiment. When supporters collectively make it clear across sponsor channels that partnering with negligent ownership carries a reputational cost, commercial teams take notice.
- Starve the Megastore: Stop buying official kits, training apparel, and club subscriptions. If you want United gear, buy retro or support independent fan-made apparel.
- Back fan-led advocacy: Support independent fan media, fanzines, and the Supporters Trust. Collective, legal, and political pressure moves the needle; reckless armchair advice does not.
If we want change, it requires collective discipline across the entire fanbase—not asking matchgoers to commit financial or legal suicide just to make a 30-second point on television.
There’s no divide here: it isn’t matchgoers versus non-matchgoers; it’s all of us. If we aren’t united, we achieve nothing, and that failure rests on every single Manchester United supporter.
A better-formatted version of this post is here: cheesesofnazareth.substack.c…
David retweeted
Telling match-goers to empty Old Trafford from an armchair on the other side of the world is easy. Please stop.
Wanted to get this off my chest.
callumstone1.substack.com/p/…
David retweeted
Home Ticketing Prices
This is getting ridiculous, and I think it's time for the @PremierLeague to regulate home ticket prices. Any review should also consider the percentage of a stadium that can be allocated to hospitality to prevent clubs from exploiting supporters by continually replacing general-admission seats with premium offerings.
If the @PremierLeague truly cares about the long-term future of its product, it needs to remember what made it successful in the first place: the supporters. The atmosphere, passion and loyalty that fans have brought to the game for generations are a huge part of its appeal, and pricing those people out of attending matches is a dangerous path to go down.
To put home ticket prices into perspective, we're playing Nottingham Forest on Boxing Day — traditionally one of the biggest family matchdays of the season. If a family of four wanted to attend Old Trafford, the costs could look something like this:
Memberships
2 Adults: £37.50 each = £75
2 Under-16s: £20 each = £40
Match Tickets
2 Adults: £110–£180
2 Under-16s: £45–£90
Total cost: £270–£385 for a single game of football.
And that's before travel, food, drinks, parking or merchandise.
Football's greatest asset has always been its supporters. If clubs and the league continue to push prices beyond the reach of ordinary fans, they risk losing the very atmosphere that helped make the game what it is.
Leave the atmosphere in football before the atmosphere leaves you.
David retweeted
🚨 | EXCLUSIVE: Bazake can exclusively reveal a leaked image of the "retro away days" alternate version of the union flag Andy Burnham plans to use on official state visits should he become prime minister. The design is inspired by football shirts from the 1980s and 1990s.
David retweeted
"Your tickets are secure, are you f**king sure"
Despite Manchester United’s assurances that digital NFC tickets are fully secure, a major flaw in the @SeatGeek ticketing platform leaves supporters highly vulnerable to unauthorised access. By knowing a fan's Supporter ID and just their surname or postcode, anyone can unauthorisedly view, download, and use their tickets without the owners knowledge.
This has already resulted in legitimate ticket holders being turned away at both home and away matches because their tickets had already been scanned.
The issue was deliberately kept quiet during the season to minimise disruption, but with the Premier League aiming for fully digital tickets next season, it must be prioritised over the summer. The risk is exacerbated by a club culture where fans have widely shared their Supporter IDs for ticket-forwarding purposes, and instances where Manchester United emails have inadvertently exposed this information. The author urges @SeatGeek and the club to implement a secure, user-led authorizlsation process rather than relying on flawed off-the-shelf solutions.
To read more click here: open.substack.com/pub/cheese…
Please repost, this is important for all clubs now digital ticket is the future, not just #MUFC
Polite reminder not to take any flags home with you on sunday.
If you want to help at HT/FT please take them to the back of the stand.
thanks
@TraMufc @TRA_FC_ @MU_ST @ManUtd @AndyMitten
Reclaim The Stretford End – Update
🇾🇪TRA have now designed & funded over 350 flags as part of the RTSE campaign and prior to the Leeds game we announced that 180 of these would be introduced into Stretford End Tier 2.
🇾🇪The Club also contacted everyone in both T1 & T2 who had a ticket for the game on our behalf, explaining that our resources are stretched to the limit and we can't do this without the help of fellow Stretford Enders, resulting in approximately 25 responses.
🇾🇪Before kick-off approximately only 60 of the 180 flags were used and at full-time over 40 were taken out of the stadium, a handful of which were recovered by stewards at the exits or Reds outside the ground. We're happy to admit some responsibility for this as we could have been clearer that the flags were not gifts to be taken home but are paid for by the fans and should therefore remain in The Stretford End for use at every game. Lesson learned.
🇾🇪Taking all of this into account, we’ve decided to remove all remaining flags from T2 and concentrate our efforts on T1 for the remainder of the season. Until we have a team of volunteers in place in both tiers that’s capable of managing such a large number of flags.
🇾🇪For the Brentford game therefore, we’ll have all flags (over 350) in T1, including the remaining waver flags and the new 18m flag that were originally intended for T2.
🇾🇪We’re working hard to ensure that T2 will again be fully involved in time for the start of the new season but this will only be possible with the help of a suitable number of volunteers up there so please keep an eye out for future communications regarding this. If you’d like to help out in T1 for Brentford and can get to Old Trafford the day before the game, you can send your details (name, membership) to info@mufctra.co.uk and we’ll be in touch nearer the game.
🇾🇪Cheers🇾🇪
David retweeted
There’ll be a new 18m flag in W204 & over 350 flags across the whole of T1 tonight.
Just a friendly reminder to leave the flags where you find them at the end of the game & not to take them home with you - these are NOT A GIFT 🤦♂️
If there’s a flag on your seat then get involved & use it, life’s too short to be miserable 😉🇾🇪
David retweeted
🔴⚪️ River Plate have reached 105 consecutive sold-out matches, with more than 85.000 fans in attendance at the Mâs Monumental.
This was the team’s reception at the latest Superclásico against Boca Juniors. ⤵️🎥
David retweeted
No fan of capos, drums or this type of thing at all but it demonstrates perfectly the contrast between European clubs and clubs like Manchester United.
Ignoring the fact that the lad would have been arrested before his feet touched the ground, the real take away is how the next generation of fans are clearly front and centre of European fan culture.
We’re on the precipice here of having no new generation of ‘proper’ Reds coming through probably for the first time in The Club’s history. That is an unmitigated disaster and one we’re all guilty of sleep walking into and one that a new stadium would only expedite.
